This exam is an opportunity to demonstrate your abilities to think creatively and to integrate all the various topics we have covered in both quarters thus far. Take this as an opportunity to shine and really show me what you know. While you need to give me enough details to fully support your answer, don’t give me extraneous ones. Please try to limit your answers to one side of a page for each question.

1. Clearcuts most likely will continue to be a favored method of harvest.
1. Outline the ecological and economic arguments in favor of clearcuts.
2. Outline the ecological and economic arguments against clearcuts.
3. Discuss how you might plan a clearcut to minimize the negative effects you described above.
2. The forest surrounding campus formerly was old-growth Douglas fir/hemlock and following logging is now second growth. What types of restorative ecological management measures could be implemented to "restore" it to old growth characteristics as rapidly as possible.